Lesbian Fiction ForumThe Golden Crown Literary Society's short list was announced yesterday. A "short list", also called the "finalists", is made by tallying the scores from the judges and listing the top X number from the nominees. For example, there were 22 nominees for "Debut Author". The short list is 8 names.
Oh, and Paula Offutt is one of them.
Wait, *I* made the short list?
Yep! I did I did! Last night I was kinda bummed because the book wasn't short listed for the Lesbian Romance category. There were FIFTY nominees in that category and it was up against greats such as Karin Kallmaker's Finders Keepers and Lynn Ames' Heartsong. Then Lori L. Lake emailed me to offer congratulations and, in the course of other emails, reminded me of the high number of nominations for Debut Author. I felt much better after that.
Congratulations to all the finalists. Lesbian fiction is growing and we all, readers and writers alike, are responsible.
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Golden Crown Literary Society - list of nominees - list of finalists - GCLS Convention
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How fantastic! Many congratulations!
— submitted 6/14/2008 @ 2:09 pm
Thanks! I am tickled.
And I'm writing again. Slowly but surely. Started a few weeks or so ago on Simple Sarah and BG3. It feels good.
— submitted 6/14/2008 @ 4:29 pm
Congratulations Paula…there are a lot of fine writers short listed in all categories. It's great to see so many choices in lesbian lit.
Beth
— submitted 6/14/2008 @ 6:05 pm
It is, isn't it? I like that there are so many. I'm glad to see genres other than Romance take off, too. Poetry, who knew there were that many out there?!
— submitted 6/14/2008 @ 11:31 pm